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Community-based management of a five-arm randomised clinical trial in COVID-19 outpatients in South Africa: challenges and opportunities

restrictions, significant morbidity and mortality waves, and allied supply line, economic, and political instability. Our clinical study design was pragmatic, including low-risk patients who were treated open ... presentation of patients, COVID‑19 misinformation, and political unrest. Mitigations were the use of community health workers, deployment of mobile clinical units, and simplification of screening. Trial

Implementing and evaluating group interpersonal therapy for postnatal depression in Lebanon and Kenya—individually randomised superiority trial

in offsetting some of their transportation expenses. Furthermore, the prevailing political environment in Lebanon, combined with the Lebanese government’s deportation policy affecting Syrian nationals ... improved attendance and adherence to intervention sessions among the Syrian participants. Given the current political unrest in Lebanon, particularly the bombings taking place in the South of Lebanon, and

Anticipating and strategizing to address potential bottlenecks during clinical research projects in sub-Saharan Africa: a case for adapting approaches and tools used in the entrepreneurial and development sectors

in SSA encounter in their quest to address some of the most pressing health needs in the continent. Interestingly, outright political kickback from governments is only one of the challenges donors and ... have failed to kick off because its approval could be blocked by some powerful stakeholders. Given that naivete to political realities has compromised, delayed, or destroyed many well-intentioned

Scientism as an obstacle for an ethical-political understanding of Psychology

comprehension of some human activities which include values, chiefly ethical and political. In this context, “scientism” is the dogmatic and non-thematized acceptance of natural-scientific methods. From this ... this paper is to demonstrate how “scientism” can function as an epistemological and methodological obstacle to an ethical and political understanding of psychology. Thus, at first, through reflections

Response to Merz

, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Philosophy, Western University , London, ON , Canada Jon Merz raises two objections to our article on the ethics of behavioral influences in trial recruitment. In this response

50 years of profession: social responsibility or ethical-political project?

, concluding by questioning the viability of the proposition of an ethical-political project for Psychology.

Skins and Lives Turned into Asphalt: Ethical-political Inquiries of Barbarism

different policies that can sustain our listening to the narrated. It is placed, thus, as a double-implicated ethical-political undertaking. First, outlining the reasons, institutions, and practices that made

Human Rights and Psychological Assessment: Inseparability of the Professional Ethical-Political Commitment

Professional Ethical-Political Commitment Derechos Humanos y Evaluación Psicológica: Inseparabilidad del Compromiso Ético-Político Profesional Pedro Paulo Gastalho de Bicalho Pedro Paulo Gastalho de ... to the necessity of its contextualization and the understanding of this concept as a process. We find it important to affirm that the inseparability between the political and epistemological dimensions

Using a theory-based, customized video game as an educational tool to improve physicians’ trauma triage decisions: study protocol for a randomized cluster trial

., documentation, protocols used to clean and to manage the data) will be uploaded to the open access Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (open ICPSR) repository at the conclusion of the ... HRPO Human Research Protection Office ICC Intraclass Correlation Coefficient ICD10 International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision ICPSR Inter‑university Consortium for Political and Social

Suicide prevention for substance using youth experiencing homelessness: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

made available through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which is an NIH-funded repository 1 year from project completion. These data will be shared with ... materials {29} Final de-identified datasets will be deposited and made available through Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which is an NIH-funded repository, and that

A physiotherapy group exercise and self-management approach to improve physical activity in people with mild-moderate Parkinson’s disease: a randomized controlled trial

assessments. Plans to promote participant retention and complete follow‑up {18b} All data will be managed with an intention to treat philosophy, including any who deviate from the allocated intervention. Once

Possible Communities: Social Emancipation and Communitarian Arrangements in a Ponto de Cultura

article during the period of 2013–2014. As a theoretical contribution used in the discussions and results, the philosophy of Jacques Rancière and its considerations in relation to political community ... deals with the organizational framework of Brazilian cultural policies, especially in the interface between Art, Culture, possibilities of social emancipation and political action. The research, developed

Evaluation of a disability-inclusive ultra-poor graduation programme in Uganda: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial with process evaluation

; finance; time use; income; physical health; mental health; political involvement; and women’s decision making. Overall, there was evidence that the programme improved outcomes, although not physical health

Psychology and Destruction of the Psyche: the Professional use of Psychological Knowledge for Torture of Political Prisoners

; Psicologia; Psicanálise; Psiquiatria Abstract: This article addresses the issue of the use of Psychology for the torture of political prisoners in the world and especially in Latin America. First, it ... who put their professions at the service of Latin American authoritarian regimes to torture political prisoners between the 1960s and 1970s: the Mexican psychiatrist Salvador Roquet, the Brazilian

Photographic Study of Urban Art: from Forbidden Adventure to Political Engagement

Semiotic expressions are constituted by images which carry values and concepts that are widely present in urban areas and have become a cultural phenomenon these days. Street art is one of the forms of semiotics that tends to modify the social daily life of the cities, beautifying, denouncing, or even being incomprehensible to the passerby. This study, using a historical-social...

Psychology in the Context of Traditional Communities: From the Ethnic Emergence to the Ethical-Esthetic-Political Perspective

This article aims to understand the subjectivity of women in the Quilombola Community of Macambira and the production of subjectivity of research psychologists during a monograph survey. This is an intervention research to understand how the quilombola woman lives, aiming to map and analyze the processes of subjectivation of the research psychologists in the encounter with the...

PAIN2.0: study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of a 10-week outpatient interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy to manage recurrent pain for patients with risk factors of developing chronic pain in Germany

language and philosophy. While biopsychosocial approaches have a well-established history in the treatment and management of chronic pain [ 12 ], their development in the context of prevention has been

Human Rights and Psychological Assessment: Inseparability of the Professional Ethical-Political Commitment

understanding of this concept as a process. We find it important to affirm that the inseparability between the political and epistemological dimensions of knowledge produces different methods, objectives and ... Professional Ethical-Political Commitment Derechos Humanos y Evaluación Psicológica: Inseparabilidad del Compromiso Ético-Político Profesional Pedro Paulo Gastalho de Bicalho Pedro Paulo Gastalho de